It has been announced that there will be a brief "mini-season" called LJ Idol: Exhibit A. Looks like a nice warm-up for Season 9, and a good way to show my support for LJIdoldom, so I will participate.

Watch this LJ for fresh fics!

I know that there are a good number of folks here who are not friends on my regular beldar account, which should see a bit more action now that I'm not competing in LJ Idol for a while.

What you may not know is that, traditionally, after I'm eliminated from a season of Idol, I post a "Friending Frenzy" so that all the people I've gotten to know ( Read more... )

Several years ago, I, and other fans, were at breakfast with a published author -- not a name many would recognize, but a full-time writer with many books and teleplays to his credit. I told him of the struggles I had in converting my ideas into writing, that I had hoped to have a novel written by the time I turned 40, but that day was swiftly ( Read more... )

For several weeks, there was a face in my basement.

Whenever I turned on the basement light, this would appear at the foot of the stairs:


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( Never seen so damn many turtles )

( First Year )

( Please read Part One first)

( Part Two )

( Part One )

( Sands of time )

( An alternative theory )